Almost Done!!!!!

Today was my last day of my inclusive two weeks in the classroom without Mrs. Rangel. I am really glad it is over, but it was such a great experience. The only reason I really am glad to see the time end is because I never felt totally in control of every aspect of the classroom, and by this I mean and I never felt like I knew where everything was located and where Mrs. Rangel kept this or that. Otherwise, I did well. Other staff in the building have been telling Mrs. Rangel how well I've done and that makes me happy.

Deby called me yesterday in tears, I could hardly understand her in the voice mail. All I really got out of it was that Adam won't talk to her and Ashley said she was going to hit her or beat her up or something - the got into a fight that day - and she was really upset. I honestly do not understand what goes on in that boy's head sometimes and if he wasn't in Iraq right now I would slap him upside the head for being such a dumbass. He and Deby didn't always get along when they were living together, but she is still family and yes he and Ashley have been dating for a long time now, but she's not family yet and she has a nasty little habit of lying about things so Adam will feel like he has to stand up for her or some bullshit. She runs to him crying about how so and so said this and blah blah blah, when she made it all up just to try to drive wedges between him and other people. She tried to do it to me and that was one time Adam would not stand for it at all because when it comes to that aspect of his life, Ashley has little say at all. That's why I don't understand why he won't do the same thing for Deby, afterall, she is family and I'm not. I don't know and I didn't get the whole story because I was at work when she called and her phone was off when I called her back. If it was an argument like any of the ones she and Adam had while they were living together, then I know it was bad; Adam is very good at verbally cutting people down, which, big surprise...He's never done it to me but I've seen it first hand with other people and know what the aftermath looks like. His problem is he doesn't take too well to people standing up to him, which Deby and I both did, so I don't get why he reacts to me one way and her another, but the bottom line is, if Ashley doesn't cut this shit out, then Adam really will have a reason to fight with me when he comes home.

I don't know what Wendall's deal is. He didn't eat for a couple days and then he was eating just fine. He's being such a wiener right now, I don't know what to do with him. I should probably take him to the vet.

Nothing else really exciting going on. None of the above mentioned was really all that exciting either, it's just what has been going on in the last couple days. I had better get to work on my portfolio, this bitch is almost done and I can turn it in and be done with UNL and Nebraska forever. Well, in May I can be done with them forever. I really hate this place just a little more every day and I don't think I have ever been so miserable in one place in my entire life. Maybe that's because I actually liked where I lived before and over time Lincoln has just become this really craptastic place that I can't wait to never see again.

Places I want to live before I die (In no particular order):
1. somewhere in Alaska
2. Boston
3. New York City
4. Los Angeles
5. San Francisco

Places I would rather die than live in (in no particular order)
1. Omaha (This really is #1 though)
2. anywhere in Iowa
3. anywhere in Texas
4. San Diego
5. Chapel Hill, NC

Someday. I will live in all 5 of those places before I die. I am not sure where I'd actually want to settle and raise my children, but I would like to go back to Minnesota to do that. I am almost certain, however, that Nebraska will never be 'home'.